Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 4

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came in email, but guess it is from Deccan Chronicle

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<b>SP support splits Simi </b>
 

New Delhi, Aug. 6: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the special tribunal’s order lifting the ban on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India after the government warned of “serious consequences” if the outfit was allowed to operate.

The government moved the petition challenging Tuesday’s tribunal order before a bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan which issued notice to Simi and posted the matter for hearing after three weeks.

The additional solicitor-general, Mr Gopal Subramanium had to press hard to secure a stay as the bench was inclined to order status quo.  The confession of Simi chief Safdar Hussain Nagori, arrested in March, has, meanwhile, <b>revealed differences in the outfit over its leaders taking Samajwadi Party help. It states that Simi leader Sadar Falahi, after completing a jail term, accepted SP support to quash cases against Simi members</b>.

The SP is among the outfits to openly come out in Simi’s support. During interrogation, Nagori said: “Within us (Simi) differences had started cropping up.

<b>When Sadar Falahi was released from jail... he tried to finish cases against him... with Samajwadi support. This led to differences.”</b> <b>Nagori said Simi wanted to punish the perpetrators of the Gujarat and Mumbai riots, and avenge the Babri Masjid demolition. He said units led by Shibli, Hafiz, Kamruddin, Ikrar Sheikh and Shahwaz were training activists in camps in the forests of Simrol near MP, Hubli in Karnataka, Ujjain and Mumbai.</b>

<b>This “fresh evidence” gathered by the Centre could have helped secure an extension of the ban</b>. The home ministry, however, appended these as background material, and did not make them part of the basis for the notification seeking renewal of the ban. The tribunal quashed the ban on Tuesday.

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